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Even worse than the incessant expression of inane private thoughts is the attempt to express complex private emotions in Facebook??s limited text boxes. Publicly paraded sentiments are inevitably devalued as a result of their superficial context. This inappropriateness is most apparent when the most personal emotions, such as those associated with death, begin to decorate public forums. When someone with a Facebook dies, his or her profile often remains active, either to commemorate that person’s life or because the family does not have the legal rights to close it. Messages such...
...Facebook forces this intensely private and vulnerable moment into the realm of public interrogation and imbues it with the disingenuous and impersonal tone of an e-mail. Although usually uttered in jest, the statement “it’s not real until it’s on Facebook?? increasingly offers an accurate description of reality. Solidified in the digital universe, a committed relationship status serves as an explicit pledge of fidelity and a safeguard against unwanted come-ons. The relief of seeing those words in plain text promises to end the agonizing guessing game by confirming...
...Sixty-five million dollars is a significant sum—it’s certainly more than the cost of the defense,” Chris S. Graham, an intellectual property litigator, told The Recorder. “But it’s a very small percentage of [Facebook??s] valuation and therefore could be argued by Facebook to be a payment based on considerations other than the merits of the claims.” According to recent estimates by the Web site Silicon Alley Insider, Facebook, Inc. was valued at $4 billion. Harvard Law School Professor Phillip...
...Kirkland House roommate Mark E. Zuckerberg, acknowledged the networking giant’s influence on his new venture. Although the new business will be separate from Facebook, Moskovitz wrote in a letter to his co-workers that the company will “feel like a natural extension of Facebook??s product and purpose.” Facebook will be the default option for identifying users on the new site, and the user interface will be similar to Facebook??s to facilitate easy navigation. In his statement to his co-workers, Moskovitz wrote that his experience...
...honor of the beginning of the crew season, and just because we all miss the Summer Olympics, FM sat down with Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04 to discuss his summer in Beijing, his undergrad experience at Harvard, and his status as Facebook??s enemy number...